Quotes About Willpower

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall."

Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Kendi özgür irademize inanmak zorunday?z, aksi durumda ahlâki sorumlulu?umuza inanmak için temelimiz kalmaz, o zaman da ahlâki seçimlerimizin denetimimiz d???nda oldu?unu kabul etmek zorunda kal?r?z

Thomas de Quincey

Cut my legs off but don't take away my ability to think, dream, and write

My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

We need the right attitude and the right motivation - that can decide the match above everything else.

I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

You must never give up and have faith in yourself.

No doctor is going to tell me I can't finish the Tour. I will never give up.

You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

One must never give up and always believe in one's self.

I will never give up fighting firstly because that's not in my character, to just give up.

I'd never take a job where I had to do something that I didn't want to do.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Age has nothing to do with doing new things. If you have it in you, then you will be able to do it. It's about your will power.

Training is not the key. Head is the key. For me, it's head. How aggressive you will be. Who will attack first? But you need to be good in your head, and there will be no problem.

The demon of choice confronted her then, teased her, challenged her.

Creo que puedes hacer lo que quieras. Al final, cada uno vive la vida que ha elegido vivir.

I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them.

As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs on my wrists and remembered the physical suffering and mental anguish I had endured while fighting with all the willpower and intellect God had given me for that rare and elusive thing in a Communist country called justice.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...